Sweary stuff about swearing from a group of linguists, lexicographers, language lovers. Active: @stronglang@lingo.lol on Mastodon; stronglang on Bluesky
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New on the blog: @Fritinancy on “bitchin’,” which rode a wave of surfer slang to become a widespread adjective, interjection , and brand name. stronglang.wordpress.com/202…
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Happy new year, mofos! Time for our year-end tradition: the annual Ticker Awards for swearing, emceed as always by @bgzimmer. stronglang.wordpress.com/202…
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New on the blog: Asterisks for the f*n of it stronglang.wordpress.com/202…
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"Piss poor" and "not a pot to piss in."
From the Department of Don’t Pass Speculation Off as Fact
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ALT “An Old Woman at a Window Emptying a Chamber Pot,” anonymous, between 1700–24; oil on panel painting of an old woman, wearing a kerchief and ruffled collar, leaning out a window and emptying a chamber pot with the opening lines of the post superimposed
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We covered similar ground in one of our earliest posts. stronglang.wordpress.com/201…
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.@velocitytweets: How to use swear words in your fucking marketing velocitypartners.com/blog/ho…
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“Words like squirt and scum don’t have quite the speed. We already know that skeet seems like a good word for shooting, and, well…”
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.@doctorow coined “enshittification” earlier this year. Now he's coined a brand extension: “enshitternet.” doctorow.medium.com/podcasti…
Our post on “enshittification.” stronglang.wordpress.com/202…
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FUBAR, SUSFU, and 17 other “screwed-up” military acronyms, by @expresident
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“Did ‘pussy,’ ‘ass,’ and ‘bitch’ each constitute separate insults?” (ht @bgzimmer)
New on our blog from @StanCarey: Strong bad mature filthy language. stronglang.wordpress.com/202…
“When no inputs were given, the model made up words like ‘ditwat.’”
Hmmm…it already means stuff…Mathematician uses algorithm to create the world's ultimate swear word mol.im/a/12283151 via @MailOnline
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“It turns out that, as research has found, programmers include a lot of swear words right inside their code.” And some of those swear words might be useful.
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“Shakespeare does not use the word, although he did hint at its existence for comic effect. In Merry Wives of Windsor (IV.i) he gives us the pun ‘focative case.’” - @wordorigins
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“Militia Scunt. It’s so good that it took me a second to fully process the punchline, even after I digested the obvious curse word in her surname.” - @colemanjspilde
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